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From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them?

Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back? For Stolen Focus, internationally best-selling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons why our teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and why office workers on average manage only three minutes. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong.

What if everything we’ve been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to discover what really causes addiction – and how to solve it. Told through a series of gripping human stories, this audiobook was the basis of a TED talk and animation that have been viewed more than twenty million times. It has transformed the global debate about addiction.

¿Cuáles son las causas reales de la ansiedad y la depresión? ¿Cómo podemos librarnos de ellas? Johann Hari fue un niño con depresión, y ya en la adolescencia tomaba antidepresivos. Como a toda una generación, le habían dicho que su problema era un desequilibrio químico en el cerebro. Años más tarde, sin embargo, Hari se puso a investigar, y concluyó que buena parte de lo que se dice sobre y la ansiedad y la depresión es falso. Mientras recorría el mundo, y con ayuda de los científicos sociales, empezó a darse cuenta de cómo estas enfermedades dependen en gran medida de la forma en que vivimos.

One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction - and what really solves it.

Seit seiner Kindheit leidet Johann Hari unter Angstzuständen, Gefühlen von Traurigkeit und unendlicher Leere. Mit achtzehn bekommt er die Diagnose: Depression. Es folgt die langjährige Behandlung mit Antidepressiva. Doch trotz Anpassung der Dosis und Phasen der Besserung hat Hari das Gefühl: Die Depression hat ihn im Griff. Er beginnt die ärztliche Strategie zu hinterfragen: Sind Depressionen zwangsläufig auf ein biochemisches Ungleichgewicht im Gehirn zurückführen? Können Medikamente langfristig die Lösung sein? Und welche Rolle spielt die Pharmaindustrie dabei?